emoticon & smileys
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Happy |  |
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On the phone |
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Sad |  |
:-c | Call me |
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Winking |  |
~X( | At wits’ end |
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Big grin |  |
:-h | Wave |
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;;) | Batting eyelashes |  |
:-t | Time out |
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>:D< | Big hug |  |
8-> | Daydreaming |
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:-/ | Confused |  |
I-) | Sleepy |
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Love struck |  |
8-| | Rolling eyes |
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:”> | Blushing |  |
L-) | Loser |
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:-O | Surprise |  |
:O) | Clown |
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X( | Angry |  |
8-} | Silly |
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:> | Smug |  |
<:-P | Party |
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B-) | Cool |  |
(:| | Yawn |
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:-S | Worried |  |
=P~ | Drooling |
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#:-S | Whew! |  |
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Thinking |
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>:) | Devil |  |
#-o | D’oh |
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Crying |  |
=D> | applause |
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Laughing |  |
:-SS | Nailbiting |
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=)) | Rolling on the floor |  |
:-w | Waiting |
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=(( | Broken heart |  |
[-( | Not talking |
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O:-) | Angel |  |
:-< | Sigh |
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:-* | Kiss |  |
:-$ | Don’t tell anyone |
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:-B | Nerd |  |
>:P | Phbbbbt |
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=; | Talk to the hand |  |
<):) | Cowboy |
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:^o | Liar |  |
3:-O | Cow |
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/:) | Raised eyebrow |  |
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Monkey |
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(~~) | Pumpkin |  |
:@) | Pig |
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Tongue |  |
:-& | Sick |
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Straight face |  |
@-) | Hypnotized |
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*-:) | Light bulb |  |
~:> | Chicken |
In web forums, instant messengers and online games , text emoticons tend to be automatically replaced with small corresponding images, which came into existence called “Emoticons.” Similarly, in some versions of Microsoft Word, the Auto Correct feature replaces basic smileys for example 
and 
having a single smiley-like character. Originally, these image emoticons were fairly basic and replaced only the most simple and common character sequences, but with time they became so complex that the more specialized emoticons are often input utilizing a menu or popup windows, sometimes listing numerous items. Emoticons have expanded beyond simple cartoon facial expressions to many different still or moving images. A few of these graphical emoticons usually do not actually represent faces or emotions; by way of example , an “emoticon” showing a guitar could be used to represent music. Further, some instant messaging software is made to play a sound upon receiving certain emoticons.
Many applications use text codes, which become replaced with a graphical emoticon. As an example ,:dance: or (dance) may very well be replaced which has a graphical dancing emoticon. The first web forum software package to perform this transformation was Proxicom Forum, developed in 1996.
An August 2004 issue on the Risks Digest (comp.risks on USENET) outlined issues with such features that are not under the sender’s control:
It’s hard to learn ahead of time what character-strings are going to be parsed into what type of unintended image. A colleague was discussing his 401(k) plan together with his boss, who actually is female, via instant messaging. He discovered, to his horror, that the boss’s instant-messaging client was rendering the “(k)” being a big set of red smoochy lips.
Many sites use GIF or PNG graphic files, as a result of their transparency and small quality capabilities. Files could be created using a raster graphics editor. Many emoticon artists design their emoticons pixel by pixel. Some emoticons are manufactured in vector format, for instance SVG, and automatically processed utilizing a graphics library. This gives SVG files to become automatically rendered like a GIF or PNG file, which can be suitable for most browsers, which SVG seriously isn’t .
